Socket for sheet-metal vessels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LEWIS WAGANDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SOCKET FOR SHEET-METAL VE$SELS.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 525,637, dated September 4, 1894.

Application filed March 31, 1894. Serial No. 505 ,831. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES LEWIS WA- GANDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sockets for Sheet-Metal Vessels, of

- which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved socket for the wood handles of sheet-metal vessels. The object is to provide a sheet-metal socket of improved construction for attachment to the bowl or body of a vessel.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view of the blank as primarily cut out or struck up from which the socket is formed. Fig. 2 also shows the blank and illustrates the second step in the formation of the socket. Fig. 3 is a section of the blanka little to the left of the line 3-3. Fig. 4 shows the blank and illustrates the next step, to wit, the formation of hooked edges to interlock with each other when the blank is formed into a tubular socket. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views of the complete socket. Fig. 9 is aside view of a vessel embodying my invention.

The tubular shank, A, of the complete socket, shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, is formed from the blank shown in Fig. 1; this blank has two oblique edges, a, a, a curved edge, b, at its broadest part between the two oblique edges, and projecting'from its opposite edge are two partly circular tangs or ears, 0, which are separated by a central notch, d. The blank is then stamped as shown in Fig. 2, to form two straight creases or countersinks,e,- one at the base of each ear, 0; these two creases are diagonally disposed with respect to each other; in this operation also the edges of the ears have a raised strengthening bead, c, and near the lower edge of the blank is formed a horizontal strengthening bead, I); each ear has a central hole, f, and a hole, g, is on one side of the blank above the strengthening bead, b. The two oblique edges, a, a, are next bent to a hook form, h,-the hooks being in opposite directions, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, so that one hook will be on one surface of the blank and the other hook on the qpposite surface.

The tapered socket shown in Figs. 6, 7 and the socket adjacent or nearest the ears,c, be-

ing slightly flattened at e. The cars, which take against the wall of the vessel, I, have positions angularly disposed with respect to the small end of the tubular socket, so that when the socket is secured to the vessel, said socket will have a proper upward inclination. Instead of forming the oblique edges, a, a, into hook-form and interlocking them, these edges may be overlapped and soldered together.

It will be seen in the finished article, that at the joinder of each earv with the tubular shank there is a straight line, bend e ,-said straight line extending in a direction diagonally across the shank. Where the socket is formed by bending a flat blank into tubular form and bending the ears out laterally at an angle with respect to the tubular shank, this formation of the straight line bend, 6 is important. The socket is now ready to be socured to the bowl or body, I, of any desired vessel, such as a sauce-pan or dipper; in the present instance it is shown applied to the bowl of a dipper. The ears, 0, are placed against the bowl and secured by means of rivets passed through the holes, f. The bowl and socket, if desired, may then be dipped into molten tin to close the crevices. The hole, g, near the strengthening bead, b, is for the reception of a fastening screw or pin to confine a wooden handle in the socket. It will be seen the socket and its two ears are made of one integral piece of sheet-metal.

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A socket for handles of dippers, saucepans and other vessels, consisting of'a tubular shank, A, having at one end two tangs or ears, 0, which are to be attached to a vessel, said ears being at opposite sides of the tubuears being at diametrically opposite sides of the tubular shank and integral therewith; and a straight line crease, a, at the joinder of each ear with the shank. V

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES LEWIS WAGANDT.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. TAYLOR, CHAS. B. MANN, Jr. 

